Four statues of Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu deity revered as the remover of obstacles, are to be removed in the next few days from outside Edmonton's Shaw Conference Centre after adamant objections from Alberta Hindus.**********
Ryan McCourt's sculptures, which have been on display for 10 months, were placed at the centre under Edmonton's Art and Design in Public Places Program, a corporate-municipal non-profit partnership seeking to show large-scale sculptures produced by many artists in the region.
UPDATE: Ryan McCourt replies to critics...
"There's lots of art that I don't like," he wrote. "I don't go around gathering signatures of people who agree with me, and try to force the art to come down."
"That would be truly offensive, especially in a democracy like Canada."
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